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The International Research Society for Children's Literature is an international scholarly organization established to support and promote research in the field of children's literature. Visit us here: https://www.irscl.org/
#CFP: "Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Children’s Literature"
IRCL Special Congress Issue 20.2 (2027)
Deadline for full articles: November 1, 2025
Email: jnals.cc@gmail.com, iea@usal.es, and rharde@ualberta.ca)
#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
Hybrid seminar: Intergenerational Pedagogies of Remembrance: Arts, Curatorship and Youth Participation
Kick-off seminar of COREM: Collective Remembrance: Engaging Youth Through Curatorial Practices
University of Wrocław
Date: 8 October 2025
Time: 9-18:30
Website: www.upf.edu/web/corem/ev...
#CFP: Call for Paper 2026 for JIB - Journal of Interactive Books
Deadline for abstracts: 12 January 2026
Email: pop-app@fondazionetancredidibarolo.com.
Website: jib.pop-app.org/index.php/ji...
#CFP: Reading Girls: Literacy in 19th-Century Girls' Transatlantic Literature and Culture
Edited book
Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2025
Email: Dr. Sonya Fritz (sfritz@uca.edu) and Dr. Miranda Green-Barteet (mgreenb6@uwo.ca)
Website: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
#CFP: Global Committee Panel on
Borders, Bridges and Belonging: Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
Children's Literature Association Conference
28-30 May 2026
Pittsburgh, USA
Deadline: 30 September 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Email: dhm33@drexel.edu
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#CFP: SELF-TRANSLATION IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Strenæ. Research on Children’s Books and Cultural Objects
Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2025
Email: strenae@afreloce.fr
Website: journals.openedition.org/strenae/11837
#CFP: The Citizen-Child: Global Perspectives on Children’s Literature and the Making of Modernity
The Sixth International Children’s Literature Symposium (ICLS)
25-26 June, 2026
Hosted by the University of Antwerp
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Email: Courtney Weikle-Mills, caw57@pitt.edu
#CFP: "CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE FROM CANADA / TURTLE ISLAND: NEW PERSPECTIVES AND EMERGING CONVERSATIONS"
Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies
Deadline: December 15 2025
Email: c.b@usal.es and anafra@usal.es
revistas.usal.es/dos/index.ph...
#CFP: Defiant, Untamed, and Outspoken: Reimagining Girlhood in Asian Youth Literature
Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
Deadline: December 1 2025
Guest editors Dr. Arpita Sarker
arpitasarker19@gmail.com and Dr. Anurima Chanda anurimahere@gmail.com
iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/rdy...
#CFP: "Picturing Otherness: The Historical Construction of Diversity in Western Children's Literature"
Jeunesse
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Email: guest editors Maria Lucenti (MARIA.LUCENTI@unige.it) and Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk)
utppublishing.com/journals/jeu...
#CFP: Nonsense and the Absurd in Children’s and YA Literature
4th International Conference on Children and Young Adults’ Literature
21-24 May, 2026
Baia Mare, Romania
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Website: litere.cunbm.utcluj.ro/kidlit/
#CFP: European Children’s Literature and Sports
Second Conference of the European Children’s Literature Research Network
19-21 October 2026
Munich, Schloss Blutenburg, International Youth Library
Deadline: 1 December 2025
Email: echildlitrn@gmail.com
Online Talk: "Playing hide and seek with Childhood in Kashmir" by Kamayani Kumar
Association for Children's Literature in South Asia
20 September 2025
8 p.m. IST / 7:30 a.m. PT
To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open position: Copyediting and article-layout design
The Children’s Literature in English Language Education (CLELE) journal
Deadline: 30 September 2025
Email: clele.elt@gmail.com
Proud to be a mentor for ALTA/SALT's 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program, for a translator of children's literature working from any South Asian language into English (based anywhere in the world).
#xl8 #worldkidlit #kidlit #kidlituk #booksky
Hybrid lecture: The Spencer G. Shaw Lecture 2025
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Husky Union Building, Room 250
University of Washington’s Seattle campus
October 16, 2025, 7:30 PM-9:30 PM PT
events.uw.edu/event/61eda3...
Call for Applications:
Editorial Assistant International Research in Children’s Literature (IRCL)
Deadline: 30 September 2025
Email: IRSCL President Sara Pankenier Weld at saraweld@ucsb.edu
#CFP: Symposium CFP: Irish and Scottish Women Writers for Children, c. 1750-1940.
Friday 12th December 2025, 9.30am – 5.30pm.
The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Deadline: 31 August 2025
Email: Lois Burke at v1lburk3@ed.ac.uk
Fellowship opportunity: Fellowship programme at the International Youth Library
Munich
Deadline: 30 September 2025
Website: www.ijb.de/en/fellowshi...
#CFP: Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Children’s Literature
IRCL Special Congress Issue
Deadline: November 1 2025
Email: Johari Murray (jnals.cc@gmail.com) and Izaskun Elorza (iea@usal.es); and Roxanne Harde (rharde@ualberta.ca)
#CFP: "Studio Ghibli Films and Beyond"
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura [Childhood: Literature and Culture]
Deadline for full articles: January 4, 2026
Submit via the journal’s platform: www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/dlk
Website: www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/dl...
Online Talk: Crossing Borders, Growing Citizens: Childhood and Nation-building in India by Samina Mishra
Association for Children's Literature in South Asia
22 August 2025 7.30 p.m. IST / 7 a.m. PT
To register, scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#CFP: "Mothers of the Magical Kingdom: Disney and Maternal Figures"
Special Issue for The International Journal of Disney Studies
Deadline for full articles: 1st May 2026
Email: Dr. Marissa Lammon – marissa.lammon@colorado.edu; Dr. Ali Saha – ali.saha@unimelb.edu.au
We are glad to share the work of Sarah Caré (o.is.for.orange on Instagram), who was awarded a 2025 IRSCL Visual Conference Reporter Award at the 2025 IRSCL Congress.
You can read her report here: www.flipbookpdf.net/web/site/524...
#CFP: "Children’s Literature and Graphic Narrative"
Edited book, part of Routledge’s new series "Introductions to YA and Children’s Literature"
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2025
Deadline for chapters' first drafts: 1 February 2026
Email: Alison Halsall ahalsall@yorku.ca
#CFP: ChLA 2026 Call For Papers – "Imagined Spaces, Real Divides: Neighbors and Neighborhoods in Children's Literature, Media, and Culture"
May 28-30, 2026
Omni William Penn Hotel ~ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Website: www.childlitassn.org/2026-call-fo...
Call for Applications:
International Research in Children’s Literature Early Career Researcher Board
Deadline: 15 November 2025
Email: capshaw@uconn.edu
Dear colleagues and children's literature scholars,
we are excited to present our new page on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/irscl
We are glad to be there and look forward to sharing our CFPs and projects on that platform as well.
